The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-09
A BLOW AT ORGANIZED LABOR.
The Introduction of scnb Monkeys
Into This Country from Africa.

The Introduction of scnb Monkeys
Into This Country from Africa.
Loyal Knights of Labor should view
with alarm and resist with clubs the
movement to introduce imported mon
key labor in this republic. The move
ment, to be sure, is rs yet in its begin
ming. Only one American citizen is
thus far reported MS an employer OF
monkeys. The man who has aimed
this dastardly blow Il, organized labor
is j. b. Parkes, of Kngstone, KY. who
''has successfully trained seven large
monkeys to work in his hemp field and
to prepare the hemp for market. ="
The animals not only do the wor. TO
the perfect satisfaction of their shame
less employer, but at about onG-fourth
the cost OF negro labor. This is a small
beginning, but it is iraught with all
the perils of u crevassc in a Miss SIS ppi
levee. The cruel laws of political
economy will favor the extension Of the
plan, for the chcapneSs Of monkey
labor us compared with human labor
must weigh powerfully in favor of the
former Already ths Parkes has sent
to his brother N south Africa Tor ten
more large monkeys. II this thing is
not stopped we shall soon have millions
of pauper monkeys IN this country,
working merely for their board and
lodgings and excluding IN equal or
greater number of Italians and Ir sh-
men from gainful occupations. This
must not be; the S.mian must 20.
All the objections that the swift
reasoning powers and instincts of the
hoodlum have discovered and urged
against cheap Chinese labor apply with
tenfold force to the case Of the monkey.
And there are other grounds of obicc-
ton which are peculiar to and so to
speak. inherent in monkeys. The
monkey is and must be q scab, hopeless
and irreclaimable. He can not be
"organizcd.' He can not be- called
out He can not be made to boycott
Ehrets beer. lie is Incapable of cult
waiting dislike for non-union cocoa
nuts. He is too profoundly selfish 10
recognize the principle that 'the in
jury of one is the concern OF all. He
wears nothing but his hair, and is only
in the slightest degree Il consumer Of
the products of the toll of wage carners.
He can not be made to talk or to vote
against the capitalislic sknllints. And,
finally, he is II quadrummous beast,
capable in some occupations of working
at the same time with all four of his
| a. al. al,
mouths OF honest laborors.
1t is needless to point ont the useless
ness of monkeys TO the politicians and
damagogucs. though it is conceivable
that in close precinct the electorate
might be enlarged to the desired ex-
tent by ) mian personators at the polls,
the facial appearances of Il good-szed
south African monkey being sufficiently
! like that of the human beings usually
imported and used for this purpose to
deceive even lynX-eyed inspector. But
the monkey in politics would be infre-
quent and sporadic. In labor he will be
multitudnous and crushingly compet!-
tive. He must go.
A delegation of Knights of Labor
should proceed at once to Kingston,
where they should hang these seven
scab monkeys with their own hemp,
put the miserable Parkes under the ban
of a perpetual boycott, and send such Il
letter of warning to his collusive
brother in south Africa as would cause
him to abandon forthwith his abhorrent
industry as n monkey purveyor -Nct0
York Times